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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 34
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Jeremiah prophesies the captivity of Zedekiah—The Jews shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
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The</span> word which came unto Jeremiah from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/34/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 26: 3.">against</a> all the cities thereof, saying,
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/34/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 21: 10; Jer. 38: 3; Jer. 52: 13.">Babylon</a>, and he shall burn it with fire:
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And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/34/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Bondage of, in Other Lands.">Babylon</a>, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
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Yet hear the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:
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<i>But</i> thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn <i>odours</i> for thee; and they will lament thee, <i>saying,</i> Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
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When the king of Babylon’s army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.
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&#182; <i>This is</i> the word that came unto Jeremiah from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which <i>were</i> at Jerusalem, to proclaim <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/34/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Liberty.">liberty</a> unto them;
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That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, <i>being</i> an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/34/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR enslave them.">serve</a> himself of them, <i>to wit,</i> of a Jew his brother.
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Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let <i>them</i> go.
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But afterward they <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/34/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE turned back on their word.">turned</a>, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
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&#182; Therefore the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came to Jeremiah from the  <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, saying,
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
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At the end of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/34/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sabbatical Year.">seven</a> years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
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And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
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But ye turned and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/34/16a" mark="a" type="R" title="HEB profaned; TG Pollution.">polluted</a> my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
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Therefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/34/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Liberty.">liberty</a>, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
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And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/34/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 15: 10.">cut</a> the calf in twain, and <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/34/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 15: 17.">passed</a> between the parts thereof,
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The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
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I will even <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/34/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 22: 25.">give</a> them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
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And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which are gone up from you.
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Behold, I will command, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
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